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Federal New Democrats are in Manitoba — but do Prairie NDP leaders want them there?

Federal New Democrats are in Manitoba — but do Prairie NDP leaders want them there?

Premier Wab Kinew spoke at convention, but sources say Manitoba NDP has distanced itself from national party. When Manitoba NDP Premier Wab Kinew addressed the federal leadership convention Friday in Winnipeg, he spoke one line three times during his speech: "To have a strong Canada, we need a strong federal NDP." For the battered federal party at an all time...

Alberta premier's constitutional affairs lead supports separatist petition

Alberta premier's constitutional affairs lead supports separatist petition

Premier Danielle Smith's parliamentary secretary for constitutional affairs is encouraging Albertans to sign a petition that calls for a vote on separation from Canada. Jason Stephan, a United Conservative Party legislature member, penned his opinion for the online conservative media outlet "Western Standard." In it, Stephan argues signing the petition to have a referendum on separation is different from signing...

Canada will cancel thousands of refugee claims under new retroactive law

Canada will cancel thousands of refugee claims under new retroactive law

Thousands of refugee claimants already in the system awaiting a hearing will have their asylum claims terminated under new eligibility criteria that are applied retroactively in a law that has just taken effect. Under the Strengthening Canada’s Immigration System and Borders Act, which received royal assent Thursday night, anyone who first arrived in Canada after June 24, 2020, will not...

Canadian Army overhaul looms as DND finalizes mobilization plans

Canadian Army overhaul looms as DND finalizes mobilization plans

Army commander warns current force structure isn't fit for rising threats. The military's operations command is currently drawing up an "all arms defence of Canada" plan which will lead to a major reorganization of the army this fall, says the country's top army commander. Lt.-Gen. Mike Wright, speaking at a land forces conference at the University of Calgary on Thursday...

Good Talk -- What Did Air Canada's CEO Moment Tell Us?

Good Talk -- What Did Air Canada's CEO Moment Tell Us?

A terrible crash of an Air Canada jet in New York becomes a language crisis at the top of the country's national airline. The airline employs more than 35 thousand people, about a third of them in Montreal. But their Montreal based CEO speaks only English and this week that became painfully clear. Bruce and Chantal have their thoughts on...

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Why Atlantic Voters Are Rallying Behind Carney.

Why Atlantic Voters Are Rallying Behind Carney.

Over half of Atlantic Canadians say they are fluid voters, in that they potentially change which party they support each election (55%), compared with 41% who usually vote for the same party. But in early 2026, that flexibility is consolidating decisively behind the Carney‑led Liberal government. New results from Narrative Research’s Atlantic Quarterly® show strong and broad satisfaction with the...

NDP Leadership Hopefuls Mostly Unknown, But Lewis, McPherson Make Gains

NDP Leadership Hopefuls Mostly Unknown, But Lewis, McPherson Make Gains

A new national survey from Liaison Strategies reveals a shifting landscape in the NDP leadership race, with Avi Lewis and Heather McPherson both making notable gains in favorability over the past year. The survey, which tracked the favorability of potential and declared candidates, highlights a significant increase in profile for Avi Lewis. Lewis has seen his favorability nearly double, rising...



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Should gambling taxes fund sports? Former Olympian says it's a 'devil's bargain'

Should gambling taxes fund sports? Former Olympian says it's a 'devil's bargain'

The government will be making a "devil's bargain" if it moves ahead with a recommendation to boost revenue for sport organizations through taxes on sports gambling, former track and field Olympian Bruce Kidd said. A commission this week strongly urged the federal government to find new sources of revenue, including sports betting, to address a funding crisis hurting national sport...

New Democrats gather in Winnipeg to pick new leader, plot path out of political exile

New Democrats gather in Winnipeg to pick new leader, plot path out of political exile

WINNIPEG -- Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew called on NDP delegates Friday to focus on issues like affordability and health care and put off tackling bigger policy ideas until they form a government.

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Ontario transportation minister: This is why we are taking over Billy Bishop

Ontario transportation minister: This is why we are taking over Billy Bishop

There has been a lot of debate in recent weeks about the province’s decision to take over the City of Toronto’s role in the agreement governing Billy Bishop Airport and to acquire the city-owned lands at the airport. Some have asked why the province would take such a step. The answer is that Billy Bishop is a critical piece of...

As mayor of Vaughan, I’m urging Mark Carney to meet our Jewish community

As mayor of Vaughan, I’m urging Mark Carney to meet our Jewish community

I have an urgent request for Prime Minister Mark Carney: please come to Vaughan, Ont., to meet with our Jewish community. As Vaughan’s mayor, I want you to know that Jews here feel angry, scared, defiant, tired, shocked and beleaguered. Who can blame them? I’ve lived my entire life in this country, but I have never before witnessed the shocking...



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Inspiring or alienating? It’s time for New Democrats to decide how they feel about Avi Lewis

Inspiring or alienating? It’s time for New Democrats to decide how they feel about Avi Lewis

Standing in front of a massive pipe organ at Winnipeg’s Knox United Church on Thursday evening, NDP scion Avi Lewis was preaching to the converted. It was the eve of the party’s leadership convention, one that party members believe could seal the NDP’s fate. Will the next leader revive a nearly moribund federal party by inspiring new and past voters...

Is there still a place for a third party in Canadian democracy?

Is there still a place for a third party in Canadian democracy?

There is nothing really new about the New Democratic Party, founded as it was in 1961. Nor with six seats, is it an official party, according to the status rules of the House of Commons. It is however, still democratic and the leadership vote culminating this weekend will point the way to where the NDP — and the progressive left...

MAGA’s plan for Canada: not annexation, but dismemberment

MAGA’s plan for Canada: not annexation, but dismemberment

No one knows where Donald Trump got the notion of annexing Canada. It hasn’t been seriously suggested by any significant figure in American politics for at least a century. There has been next to no take-up of the proposal, even among his MAGA followers. But the underlying premises – the idea that America must have complete dominion over the Western...

Memo to the PM: Fix 24 Sussex now

Memo to the PM: Fix 24 Sussex now

Here is an evergreen news story if there ever was one: the Prime Minister’s official residence has problems. Yes, we are talking about that again – the PM’s digs. Except this time we aren’t talking about 24 Sussex. We’re talking about the cottage that the Prime Minister of Canada had to move into on the grounds of the Governor-General’s residence...

Avi Lewis is a first-ballot lock. The provincial NDP should be terrified.

Avi Lewis is a first-ballot lock. The provincial NDP should be terrified.

Sunday's coronation won't revive a dead federal party, but his extremist agenda will absolutely tank their provincial success stories. Pundits love to overcomplicate politics, but the math for this Sunday’s NDP leadership vote is painfully simple. For Avi Lewis to be denied a first-ballot victory, the other four candidates on the ballot need to somehow scrape together 50% plus one...

Ottawa’s defence spending plan has ambition, but half of the equation is missing

Ottawa’s defence spending plan has ambition, but half of the equation is missing

Impressive ambition. A needed boost for Canadian sovereignty. Some hope for industrial transition. But when you get down to the math, there is only half the equation. The figures are big. After touring a Royal Canadian Navy ship on Thursday, and boasting that Canada has finally met the NATO target for defence spending, Prime Minister Mark Carney made a point...



The parliamentary budget officer is caught again in partisan conflict. Should MPs pick their own watchdog?

The parliamentary budget officer is caught again in partisan conflict. Should MPs pick their own watchdog?

In a way, the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer came full circle this week. In February 2013, as the term of the first parliamentary budget officer neared an end, the Official Opposition put a motion before the House of Commons calling for the independence of the office to be reinforced and for the term of Kevin Page to be...

Lots of other countries have charters of rights. None has anything like the notwithstanding clause

Lots of other countries have charters of rights. None has anything like the notwithstanding clause

The Supreme Court spent most of this week hearing oral arguments in what is widely known as the Bill 21 case, after the infamous Quebec law banning the wearing of religious symbols in much of the public sector – effectively a hiring bar on observant members of certain religious minorities. Only it isn’t really Bill 21 that is at issue...

Will Mark Carney Make Canada the Sane World Order Superpower?

Will Mark Carney Make Canada the Sane World Order Superpower?

I once predicted semi-seriously in a long-ago column that climate change and calm — or a combination of temperature and temperament — would make Canada a 21st-century superpower. Donald Trump may have achieved it in half the time. The term “New World Order” went viral not long after the dawn of 2026, when Prime Minister Mark Carney used it to...

Trump’s Foreign Policy Is All Fury, No Strategy

Trump’s Foreign Policy Is All Fury, No Strategy

MY EXCELLENT FRIEND and former colleague Steve Walt of the Harvard Kennedy School calls them the predatory hegemons. America, China, and Russia are prowling the world, turning a rule-ordered playing field into a jungle in which the rule of the strongest prevails. The middling powers Prime Minister Mark Carney talked about at Davos are scrambling to escape the jungle. Carney’s...

Canada’s most embarrassing maintenance problem

Canada’s most embarrassing maintenance problem

For years, the dismal state of 24 Sussex Drive has been a recurring punchline, a symbol of political paralysis, and a quiet national embarrassment. I spent years inside the machinery of government, close enough to watch good policy die, not from bad ideas, but from political timidness. The file on 24 Sussex is one I know well. It remains, after...

Decency is dying under Donald Trump – and that matters, for democracy

Decency is dying under Donald Trump – and that matters, for democracy

Those who aspire to lead democratic nations are tested from the moment they declare their candidacy. Does he speak well? Is she good on her feet? How will he handle the economy? Will she be trusted in a crisis? Each candidate is sliced and smeared and pressed onto a slide, so that the electorate can inspect every personal and professional...



Ottawa needs to open up on CSIS' foreign interference claims

Ottawa needs to open up on CSIS' foreign interference claims

The Carney government needs to get its story straight on foreign interference and transnational repression — especially as it relates to India. After this government insisted that the Indian government was cooperating with the Canadian investigation into the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar and other crimes like extortion and arson, the Indian government said there was never anything to investigate...

The NDP has become a party of puppy dogs

The NDP has become a party of puppy dogs

You’d never know it, given the scarcity of attention accorded the NDP leadership race, but there is so much riding on it. There’s the question of whether the party can survive, whether the sagging left in Canada can keep it alive. There is, ipso facto, the question of whether Canada is reduced to an American-styled two-party system, with less choice...

Supply management set to spoil another huge trade opportunity

Supply management set to spoil another huge trade opportunity

Just as turkeys don’t vote for Christmas, it would be unreasonable to expect Canada’s chicken farmers to elect for more open trade with the world’s major poultry exporter. The chicken sector is, after all, one of this country’s supply-managed industries. It’s protected from most foreign competition, ostensibly in the name of domestic food security but also, whisper it, to ensure...

It's insane to focus on the French of Air Canada's CEO

It's insane to focus on the French of Air Canada's CEO

There are days when Canada just makes me want to crawl under the bed and hide. Days when I wonder if this country really is redeemable, despite its endless natural resources, generally level-headed and tolerant population, geographic insulation from global strife and hundreds of years of good luck. Tuesday was one of those days. Wednesday was another. I’m not expecting...

Who will hold Mark Carney’s Liberals accountable, if not the New Democrats?

Who will hold Mark Carney’s Liberals accountable, if not the New Democrats?

Several years ago, a cabinet minister seated next to me at an Ottawa dinner, leaned in. The chatter around the table was the NDP’s particularly biting criticism of the Trudeau government that day. “I don’t mind,” the minister whispered in my ear. “They keep us honest.” This minister believed pressure from the NDP kept the Grits true to their values...

Conservatives warming up to the political marathon

Conservatives warming up to the political marathon

Except for the ill-conceived public campaign to get well-known commentator Don Cherry installed as a member of the Order of Canada, the Conservatives look like they have carved out a few positive weeks for themselves. It’s better than the abysmal fall and early winter that left many Conservative supporters in a foul mood, and Leader Pierre Poilievre constantly having to...



The NDP ponders a leap with Avi Lewis

The NDP ponders a leap with Avi Lewis

Avi Lewis likes neon-sign politics. That was the point of the Leap Manifesto he co-authored more than a decade ago in a bid to prod the NDP to the left. He didn’t propose steps. He wanted a leap. “We’re challenging decades of political clichés. So we want to spend like drunken sailors,” he said then, in an interview at the...

Carney-Smith pipeline deal drags on, Smith to raise hell if Alberta is shafted

Carney-Smith pipeline deal drags on, Smith to raise hell if Alberta is shafted

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith faces heat Tuesday from some folks who likely voted for her and the UCP in the last provincial election. Heat from those who may support Smith and like a lot of what she’s doing but think the deal she inked with Prime Minister Mark Carney to get a pipeline to the west coast is not worth...

Canada is slowly getting pulled into Trump’s incoherent mid-east conflict. This is the role we should play

Canada is slowly getting pulled into Trump’s incoherent mid-east conflict. This is the role we should play

Every March, millions of fans set aside their better judgment and give themselves over to the chaos of a basketball tournament aptly called March Madness. Its charm is simple. Anything can happen. Underdogs from small colleges sometimes topple the giants. We watch, we wince, we marvel. This year, the madness has spilled beyond the court into far more dangerous territory...

Restoring sanity to MAID laws in Canada will protect them

Restoring sanity to MAID laws in Canada will protect them

The scale of growth of Canada’s assisted-dying industry has become an easy talking point for skeptics both in Canada and abroad. The New York Post, in typical tabloid fashion, announced that Canada will “soon cross the sickly six-figure threshold” of 100,000 deaths by medical assistance in dying (MAID), noting the figure will surpass the number of Canadian deaths during the...

Mark Carney shouldn’t have to borrow a cottage

Mark Carney shouldn’t have to borrow a cottage

Start with the crisis everyone agrees on. A generation of young Canadians has been priced out of home ownership. Rents are consuming incomes. The dream of a mortgage, a backyard, a place to call one’s own has become, for millions, exactly that — a dream. Any serious federal leader must make housing affordability a defining mission. Which makes what I’m...

I learned something about the cruel cost of paradise

I learned something about the cruel cost of paradise

If you lay on the beach on the north coast of the Dominican Republic, warming your northern skin and admiring the play of the sun on the waves, you can sip pina coladas made from beautiful local pineapple juice, and when you want a snack, you can pay a few pesos for a little bag of brown Spanish peanuts from...

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U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample

U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample

American lawmakers are demanding answers from the Trump administration after a Canadian man says U.S. customs officers held him for three hours at the border and forced him to provide a DNA sample before sending him home. U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, a Democrat who represents an area of Michigan just outside Detroit, says she’s “outraged” by the man’s experience...

Liberal MP's Chinese forced labour comments come as U.S. probes Canada's imports

Liberal MP's Chinese forced labour comments come as U.S. probes Canada's imports

Michael Ma's industry committee confrontation amplifies risk of U.S. tariff retaliation. Liberal MP Michael Ma's apology for confronting an academic witness about whether her evidence on forced labour in Chinese aluminum supply chains could be "hearsay" coincides with a highly sensitive moment in Canada's ongoing trade war with the Trump administration. After some of the tariffs Canada faced were struck...

Feds launch early retirement program for public servants after months of delay

Feds launch early retirement program for public servants after months of delay

Public servants who are eligible for the federal government's early retirement incentive can now apply for it after waiting months for the program's launch. The program -- part of the government's efforts to cut the number of public servants -- is meant to allow some federal workers to retire early without a pension penalty. It was announced in the fall...

Hodgson defers questions on Michael Ma to Prime Minister Mark Carney

Hodgson defers questions on Michael Ma to Prime Minister Mark Carney

Energy Minister Tim Hodgson said today the federal government is opposed to forced labour, a day after another Liberal MP cast doubt on China's labour practices. On Thursday, Michael Ma apologized after appearing to question reports of human rights abuses in China while engaging with a witness at a parliamentary committee hearing earlier in the evening.

Economists see oil spike costing Canada jobs, raising inflation

Economists see oil spike costing Canada jobs, raising inflation

Economists are boosting their forecasts for Canadian inflation and unemployment as the war in Iran drives up oil prices and heightens global instability. Article content Analysts in a Bloomberg survey see the consumer price index rising at a 2.4 per cent annual pace this year, up from 2.2 per cent in last month’s survey. Unemployment is expected to average 6....

Alberta referendum ‘can have an effect’ on investor confidence, Carney says

Alberta referendum ‘can have an effect’ on investor confidence, Carney says

A referendum on whether Alberta should separate from Canada “can have an effect” on investor confidence in the province, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Friday. Carney was in Nova Scotia, speaking to the Halifax Chamber of Commerce. When asked whether he thought an Alberta referendum could impact investor confidence, Carney said, “It can, yeah. It can have an effect.”...

Carney's budget bill becomes law after passing final Senate hurdle

Carney's budget bill becomes law after passing final Senate hurdle

Prime Minister Mark Carney's first budget bill is now law, marking a milestone for the minority Liberal government. The budget implementation act, Bill C-15, received royal assent Thursday evening after the Senate gave its final sign-off on the legislation. The bill passed the House of Commons on recorded division in February, which means members of Parliament gave it the green-light...

Majority in the House of Commons: is the real magic number actually 173 seats?

Majority in the House of Commons: is the real magic number actually 173 seats?

Contrary to popular belief, the choice made by voters in the Montreal-area riding of Terrebonne in the April 13 byelection will have major implications on moving bills forward in the House of Commons. The rules of procedure in the Commons mean that, in this current Parliament, the magic number allowing a government to have a free hand is not 17...

G7 meets on the Iran war as Rubio tries to sell US strategy to skeptical allies insulted by Trump

G7 meets on the Iran war as Rubio tries to sell US strategy to skeptical allies insulted by Trump

Group of Seven foreign ministers met on Friday in France to discuss the Russia-Ukraine conflict, with deep divisions apparent over the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated complaints that America’s allies have ignored or rejected requests for help in the military operation and in confronting Iran’s retaliatory attacks, including the closure of the Strait of Hormuz...

At historic low point, New Democrats descend on Winnipeg to choose a new leader

At historic low point, New Democrats descend on Winnipeg to choose a new leader

Winner will take over a party that only elected 7 MPs — then lost 1 to Liberals. The NDP will have a new leader by Sunday afternoon — and whoever comes out of the party's convention in Winnipeg with the top job will be tasked with bringing the party back from a historic low. Five candidates — MP Heather McPherson...

NDP convention begins in Winnipeg as members prepare to pick new leader

NDP convention begins in Winnipeg as members prepare to pick new leader

New Democrats from across the country are gathering in Winnipeg for the party's convention, where a new federal party leader will be chosen by the end of the weekend. After a six-month leadership race, voting closes on Saturday and the new leader will be announced Sunday morning. The candidates are union leader Rob Ashton, social worker Tanille Johnston, filmmaker Avi...

Liberal MP Michael Ma sorry after confusion over remarks on forced labour in China

Liberal MP Michael Ma sorry after confusion over remarks on forced labour in China

MP Michael Ma, who left the Conservatives to join the Liberals, has apologized after appearing to cast doubt on reports of human rights abuses in China. Ma said he regretted making a mistake with his remarks, while pointing out that he had referred to the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, and not Xinjiang, where the Communist government has been accused...

Floor-crossing Liberal MP Michael Ma casts doubt on reports of forced labour in China

Floor-crossing Liberal MP Michael Ma casts doubt on reports of forced labour in China

An MP who left the Conservatives to join the Liberals is casting doubt on reports of human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang region. MP Michael Ma asked an expert during a parliamentary committee hearing Thursday whether she'd seen forced labour with her own eyes. "Have you witnessed forced labour in Xinjiang? Have you witnessed forced labour? Just a short answer...

Ontario delays path to balance, pumps billions into research and innovation in budget

Ontario delays path to balance, pumps billions into research and innovation in budget

Ontario is delaying a path to balance once more, as one of several shock absorbers meant to ease the province down a potentially bumpy economic road ahead, though it is currently faring better than previously feared in the face of U.S. tariffs. Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy is for the third year in a row delaying a surplus, now projecting black...

Carney takes victory lap after meeting NATO target: 'We're just getting started'

Carney takes victory lap after meeting NATO target: 'We're just getting started'

For the first time since the end of the Cold War, Canada is spending roughly two per cent of its GDP on national defence — a key NATO alliance benchmark Ottawa previously failed to meet. NATO's annual report, released Thursday, contains estimates stating Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government met the key spending benchmark for 2025 by shelling out just over...

B.C. Conservative MLA Hon Chan charged with choking, assault and uttering threats

B.C. Conservative MLA Hon Chan charged with choking, assault and uttering threats

British Columbia Conservative MLA Hon Chan has been charged with assault, assault by choking and uttering threats, prompting his removal from the party caucus. The BC Prosecution Service says the Richmond Centre legislator was charged under the name Hon-Sang Chan after a special prosecutor was appointed to look into the case last June.

Carney: Canada might help vessels sail Strait of Hormuz if there is a ceasefire

Carney: Canada might help vessels sail Strait of Hormuz if there is a ceasefire

Canada might join efforts to ensure ships can move freely through the Strait of Hormuz if there is a ceasefire in the Persian Gulf, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Thursday. "There are conversations with our NATO partners — some NATO partners — concerning what we can do with a ceasefire, at the moment there is a ceasefire, in order...

Carney says apology needed for Indigenous spying program

Carney says apology needed for Indigenous spying program

The prime minister said there should be a public apology for a spying operation targeting hundreds of Indigenous people that had the support of the federal government. "Yes, there should be an apology," Mark Carney said during a press conference in Halifax on Thursday. "It’s a reprehensible practice. Never should’ve happened." Carney was responding to reporting from CBC Indigenous, which...

Election bill takes aim at deepfakes, long ballots, threats to nomination contests

Election bill takes aim at deepfakes, long ballots, threats to nomination contests

The Liberal government is proposing new legislation to strengthen electoral integrity by banning digital deepfakes of candidates, cracking down on unduly long ballots and protecting nomination and leadership contests. The government says the Strong and Free Elections Act responds to recommendations from an inquiry into foreign interference and from others, including the chief electoral officer. The new bill would also...

Key figure in Phoenix public service pay transition says he's leaving the team

Key figure in Phoenix public service pay transition says he's leaving the team

The public servant leading the transition away from the federal government's error-prone Phoenix pay system says he's stepping down because the team no longer needs him. Alex Benay, associate deputy minister at Public Services and Procurement Canada, says in a LinkedIn post the backlog of Phoenix cases older than a year and the overall queue of complaints are at their...

Indigenous services minister announces $738M for health, emergency management

Indigenous services minister announces $738M for health, emergency management

Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty announced on Thursday a $738.9-million funding package for First Nations health care, governance and emergency management. She is earmarking $55.6 million to build up community preparedness and emergency management co-ordination. The funds are not directly related to fire management but could help with operations such as wildfire support. Gull-Masty's department is under heavy pressure from...

Procurement ombud slams Indigenous procurement strategy outcomes in 'shocking' report

Procurement ombud slams Indigenous procurement strategy outcomes in 'shocking' report

Indigenous Services Canada and other departments are failing to uphold their own Indigenous procurement strategy and may be allowing contractors to use shell companies to access contracts reserved for Indigenous businesses, says the federal procurement ombudsman. In a scathing new report released Thursday, Alexander Jeglic says Indigenous Services Canada failed to provide timely answers to procurement officers' questions in some...

Air Canada CEO apologizes after English-only response to deadly LaGuardia crash

Air Canada CEO apologizes after English-only response to deadly LaGuardia crash

The head of Air Canada apologized on Thursday for delivering an English-only video response to Sunday’s collision between one of the airline’s planes and a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport in New York City that left two pilots dead. “Despite many lessons over several years, unfortunately, I am still unable to express myself adequately in French,” Michael Rousseau said in...

‘We control our destiny’: Canada officially hits NATO defence spending target

‘We control our destiny’: Canada officially hits NATO defence spending target

After more than a decade of plodding progress, Canada has officially hit the NATO spending target of two per cent of GDP set during the Wales Summit of 2014. According to data in the NATO Secretary-General’s annual report released this morning, Canada spent more than $60 billion on defence in 2025 – an amount that adds up to two per...

The energy crisis has only just begun

The energy crisis has only just begun

An air bubble of about half a billion barrels of oil is set to wreak havoc on global economies. For every day the war in the Middle East drags on, the crisis in energy markets deepens. The price of everything from gas and oil to jet fuel and plastics is rising sharply. That crisis is set to get dramatically worse...

Ontario to unveil budget amid global economic uncertainty

Ontario to unveil budget amid global economic uncertainty

Ontario's finance minister will unveil the province's budget today, which is not expected to have any tax increases. Peter Bethlenfalvy has signalled Ontarians must plan for tougher times ahead as U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war continues and global conflicts push strong headwinds against Ontario's economy. Ontario's deficit earlier this year stood at $13.4 billion and its overall debt as...

Trans Mountain pipeline will soon be at full capacity amid global energy crisis

Trans Mountain pipeline will soon be at full capacity amid global energy crisis

Oil pipeline system connecting Alberta to West Coast was previously expected to fill up by 2027 or 2028 The Trans Mountain oil pipeline system is expected to operate at full capacity in April and into May as a result of energy disruptions caused by the war in the Middle East. The pair of pipelines transport oil from Edmonton to a...

With hindsight, former immigration minister says he would have capped international students sooner

With hindsight, former immigration minister says he would have capped international students sooner

Conservatives are calling for resignation of current minister and 2 predecessors. Justice Minister Sean Fraser, who was in charge of immigration during some of the years Auditor General Karen Hogan found instances of fraud in Canada's international student program, said with hindsight, he would have acted sooner to fundamentally change it. The Opposition Conservatives have been calling for his resignation...

Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney to participate in separation debates

Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney to participate in separation debates

Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney is taking up the Canadian cause as he's set to participate in two debates about separatism against a lawyer pushing for the province to go its own way. The first debate will take place in Edmonton in May at a member's only conference put on by Civitas Canada, a conservative non-profit organization.

MP reveals Tumbler Ridge girl's heroism, and how she passed on boy's dying message

MP reveals Tumbler Ridge girl's heroism, and how she passed on boy's dying message

The MP representing Tumbler Ridge, B.C., has described how a 12-year-old girl heroically tried to save two classmates shot in the mass killing in the community last month. Bob Zimmer told Tuesday's National Prayer Breakfast in Ottawa that the girl, named Christina, had dragged both Abel Mwansa Jr. and Maya Gebala under a table after both of the 12-year-olds were...



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Pro-Iranian group claims credit for hack of FBI Director Kash Patel's personal account

Pro-Iranian group claims credit for hack of FBI Director Kash Patel's personal account

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A pro-Iranian hacking group claimed Friday to have hacked an account of FBI Director Kash Patel and posted online what appear to be years-old photographs of him, along with a work resume and other personal documents dating back more than a decade.

Trump signs executive order to pay TSA after funding bill collapses in Congress

Trump signs executive order to pay TSA after funding bill collapses in Congress

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday afternoon that should pay TSA employees next week. Trump's action came after a Homeland Security funding measure collapsed in congress. The measure passed the Senate early Friday morning but was swiftly rejected by House Republicans. TSA workers were set to miss a second consecutive paycheck Friday.

A 14-year-old running for governor is the first teen to get on Vermont's general election ballot

A 14-year-old running for governor is the first teen to get on Vermont's general election ballot

STOWE, Vt. (AP) -- Looking back, gubernatorial candidate Dean Roy says his political ambitions started in the eighth grade. And by that he means, last year.

A Build America, Buy America law is causing construction delays amid the US housing crisis

A Build America, Buy America law is causing construction delays amid the US housing crisis

It has a catchy name -- Build America, Buy America -- and the lauded goal of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States.

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G7 meets on the Iran war as Rubio tries to sell US strategy to skeptical allies insulted by Trump

G7 meets on the Iran war as Rubio tries to sell US strategy to skeptical allies insulted by Trump

Group of Seven foreign ministers met on Friday in France to discuss the Russia-Ukraine conflict, with deep divisions apparent over the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated complaints that America’s allies have ignored or rejected requests for help in the military operation and in confronting Iran’s retaliatory attacks, including the closure of the Strait of Hormuz...

Manitoba’s Kinew links gas price spike to Iran war, alleges Trump distracting from Epstein files

Manitoba’s Kinew links gas price spike to Iran war, alleges Trump distracting from Epstein files

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is accusing U.S. President Donald Trump of fuelling the war in Iran to distract from the millions of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, also referred to as the “Epstein files,” saying the conflict is driving up gas prices for Canadians. In an interview with CTV’s Power Play with Vassy Kapelos on Tuesday, Kinew...

Democrat flips seat in special election for Florida district that includes Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort

Democrat flips seat in special election for Florida district that includes Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort

Democrat Emily Gregory won a special election for a Florida state House seat on Tuesday, flipping a district that is home to President Donald Trump's estate, Mar-a-Lago. The Republican president endorsed Gregory's rival, Jon Maples. In a social media post Monday, he urged voters to turn out, saying Maples was endorsed "by so many of my Palm Beach County friends."...

India proposes trusted traveller program to ease access to Canada for Indian businesspeople

India proposes trusted traveller program to ease access to Canada for Indian businesspeople

India would like to create a trusted traveller program with Ottawa that could ease access to Canada for Indian businesspeople similar to the NEXUS program for Canadians and Americans, New Delhi’s top envoy says. Dinesh Patnaik, India’s high commissioner to Canada, said such an arrangement could be part of the deepening ties between the two countries that follow from Prime...

‘I’m glad he’s dead’: Trump cheers Robert Mueller’s passing with tone-deaf message

‘I’m glad he’s dead’: Trump cheers Robert Mueller’s passing with tone-deaf message

President Donald Trump took to social media Saturday to celebrate the death of Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who famously led the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

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Megaprojects, Industrial Policy and the Real Test of ‘Building Canada Strong’: Community Transformation or a New Staples Trap?

Megaprojects, Industrial Policy and the Real Test of ‘Building Canada Strong’: Community Transformation or a New Staples Trap?

Canada’s renewed embrace of industrial policy and megaprojects signals a decisive shift toward an activist ‘nation-of‑builders’ strategy. However, a real test of its success is whether it can support lasting, community‑led prosperity in regions that depend on natural resource extraction or energy generation.

More hammers, fewer homes: Why a construction labour surge isn’t ending Canada’s housing crisis

More hammers, fewer homes: Why a construction labour surge isn’t ending Canada’s housing crisis

Canada’s housing shortage is no longer just an affordability problem. It is increasingly a constraint on economic growth, labour mobility, and the ability of cities to function effectively. Despite record levels of construction employment and investment, housing supply continues to fall far short of what Canadians need. The core problem lies in a sustained decline in residential construction productivity. Employment...


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A collection of SubStack publishing within Canadian public affairs.

Canada takes a big step toward troops in Iran war

Canada takes a big step toward troops in Iran war

Canadian troops may be only days away from deploying to the Middle East to aid the U.S.’s and Israel’s war on Iran. The latest indication is a joint statement expressing concern about Iran’s restriction of oil tankers through the narrow Strait of Hormuz signed by Prime Minister Mark Carney and NATO allies late in the week.

CRA's popular tax-amnesty program

CRA's popular tax-amnesty program

Canadians who have neglected to pay their taxes to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) have been coming forward in droves to take advantage of new amnesty rules.

Dimming the lights in Ontario

Dimming the lights in Ontario

Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s spurious excuses for gutting the province’s freedom-of-information (FOI) law are exactly why we need transparency legislation in the first place: governments are habitual liars. Last week, the Ford government said it plans to weaken its sunshine law by erecting brick walls around every minister’s office, including the premier’s. Freedom-of-information requests will no longer be accepted. The...

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Is the NDP ready to win?

Is the NDP ready to win?

Loyal Dippers are gathering in Winnipeg this weekend to decide their next leader — and the direction of the party. Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi joins The House to explain why he told frontrunners to not do anything that could affect his party's electoral fortunes. Then, political strategists Marci Surkes, Kate Harrison and Jordan Leichnitz weigh in on who the...

What Did Air Canada's CEO Moment Tell Us?

What Did Air Canada's CEO Moment Tell Us?

A terrible crash of an Air Canada jet in New York becomes a language crisis at the top of the country's national airline. The airline employs more than 35 thousand people, about a third of them in Montreal. But their Montreal based CEO speaks only English and this week that became painfully clear. Bruce and Chantal have their thoughts on...

Unpacking the lawful access bill, with David Fraser

Unpacking the lawful access bill, with David Fraser

Peter Mazereeuw speaks with David Fraser, a technology and privacy lawyer with McInnes Cooper, about government bill C-22, which proposes new powers for police and intelligence officers to access Canadians' electronic data and tap into their devices.

Canada hits its NATO targets. What comes next?

Canada hits its NATO targets. What comes next?

At Issue this week: The benefits, and challenges, of Canada finally meeting its two per cent NATO spending target. The uphill political battle facing the next NDP Leader. And, the growing provincial divide over how judges are appointed in Canada.